The state preferable to the church [electronic resource] : or, reasons For making Sale of the whole present Property of the Church, in England and Ireland, for the Use of the State; and for rendering the Clergy more equal among themselves, less vexatious and onerous to the Laity, and more dependent on their Head, by subjecting them to the Exchequer for their Stipends, as practised in Holland. With a View of the Self-Denying Conduct of the Popish Clergy, in Exegencies of the State, and particularly of our own, under Philip and Mary, in their releasing, for ever, all Claim to the Possessions that had been taken from the Church. In a letter from a country gentleman to the representative of his county in Parliament.